Sophie Swanson Season 2025-26

2025-26 (JUNIOR)
• Appeared in 21 games off the bench
• Registered a season-high six points against Presbyterian on Dec. 10
• Made two three-pointers against Wake Forest on Jan. 24, setting a new ACC-high

2024-25 (SOPHOMORE)
• Made 28 appearances and earned eight starts
• Averaged 8.9 points per game
• Scored in the double figures 11 times including six times against conference opponents
• Registered five assists versus UT Arlington, a personal best on Nov. 24
• Went 8-8 from the charity stripe during the Feb. 2 meeting with Wisconsin setting career marks
• Grabbed a career-high five rebounds against Northeastern on Feb. 12
• Recorded a career-high 29 points in the penultimate game of the season at Penn State. In that contest she went 10-13 from the field and connected on five three-pointers, both of which are also career highs

2023-24 (FRESHMAN)
• Played in 27 games off the bench
• Averaged 7.1 points in 12.6 minutes per game
• Led Big Ten freshmen and the nation with 4.8 three-pointers per 40 mins, while finishing first in the league and ninth in the country with 22.6 points per 40 mins
• Finished fourth among Big Ten freshmen with 1.5 three-pointers per game
• Added to Big Ten’s highest freshman scoring output of 23.5 points per game, third highest in program history and highest at Purdue in 30 years
• Knocked down 41 three-pointers at a 39.4 percent clip, eighth most triples by a freshman in program history
• Posted eight games in double figures, including five in her last nine
• Shot 42.9 percent from distance over five games in the Big Ten Tournament and the WNIT
• Drained five three-pointers against Michigan State to finish with 19 points (Feb. 21)
• Twice recorded a pair of steals against Wisconsin (Feb. 25) and Michigan (March 3)
• Dropped a career-high 25 points with seven three-pointers in the Big Ten Tournament against Nebraska on March 7, setting Purdue freshman single-game record, fourth most triples by a Boilermaker ever, tied Brittany Rayburn’s (2012) Purdue Big Ten Tournament record and the Big Ten Tournament freshman record

PREP
• Played for Barrington Prep, closing her career scoring 23.1 points per game with 3.8 rebounds, 3.0 assists, and 3.0 steals as a senior before injury sidelined her in February
• Tallied 21.4 points, 5.2 rebounds behind a 58 percent clip inside the arc as a junior
• Set the school record for points in a season (750), three-pointers in a year (86), and thrice set the school mark for points in a game (40, 37, 36)
• Averaged 16.5 points, 4.3 steals per game as a sophomore
• Totaled 462 points to average 14.3 points and 5.6 rebounds per game during her freshman campaign
• No. 103 player in the nation, No. 29 guard with a 21 rating by Dan Olson Basketball Report
• No. 8 player in the state by Prep Girls Hoops
• Named 2022 Illinois Miss Basketball and Illinois 4A Player of the Year as a junior
• Invited to the U18 USA Team Trials
• Four-time all-state, all-conference and all-area honoree
• Twice named the MSL West Player of the Year
• Honored as the Barrington Female Athlete of the Year in 2021-22
• Won conference, regional, sectional, super-sectional titles as a junior, reaching the state finals
• Invited to U18 Team USA camp as a junior

PERSONAL
• Daughter of Jim and Sloan Swanson
• Sloan played basketball at St. Joseph's College, winning three GLVC titles and graduating in 1989. She also had standout career at Hamilton High School earning Second Team All-State and a spot on the 2014 Indiana Basketball Hall of Fame Silver Anniversary Team
• Jim was a three-year football letterwinner at Ohio from 1988-90, leading the Bobcats in receiving with 37 catches for 503 yards and a touchdown as a tight end in 1989
• Has two siblings, Sam and Audrey